User talk:JohnAlbertRigali/2007

Jesus
I recently found that the Jesus article on Wikipedia is the first item that comes up when you search for "Jesus" on the world’s most widely used search engine, Google.

Please edit the Jesus article to make it an accurate and excellent representation of Him.

The Jesus article may be a person’s first impression of Jesus. It would be nice if their first impression was from a Christian or the Bible, but for so many in these new days it probably comes from the Internet. Watch the Jesus page to keep it focused on Him. Thanks a lot.

Also, watch out to follow Wikipedia's Policies and guidelines. It is especially hard for the Three-revert rule and the Neutral point of view policy to be followed because of the nature of the article, but please follow these policies along with citing sources so that the article does not get locked from editing and can't be improved further. Thanks again. Scifiintel 18:29, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Regarding edits made to Lewis Sabran
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, JohnAlbertRigali! However, your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the link you added, matching rule \bexample\.com, is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. Please read Wikipedia's external links policy for more information. If the link was to an image, please read Wikipedia's image tutorial on how to use a more appropriate method to insert the image into an article. If your link was intended to promote a site you own, are affiliated with, or will make money from inclusion in Wikipedia, please note that inserting spam into Wikipedia is against policy. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! Shadowbot 06:19, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Age category
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Image:Farnsworth.png
Hello, JohnAlbertRigali. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:Farnsworth.png) was found at the following location: User:JohnAlbertRigali/Me. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg, so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or    media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 03:03, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:VDHScrest.gif
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Please cite
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I have determined that the content that I added is true. I've been trying to figure out how to cite it because I pieced together that content from several sources; no single source contains it, and therefore I can't cite only one source. It's my bad for not throwing a "citation needed" tag on it, but couldn't you have done that instead of reverting it out? Now we're having this conversation and I have to add the content again &mdash; a waste of our time. -John Rigali 14:11, 2 October 2007 (UTC)


 * It is your responsibility to cite the content when you are adding it. See WP:V and WP:BLP.  Now, if you can find a reliable set of sources that meet WP:RS, please feel free to readd it.  Note that blogs and the like are not generally sufficient.  --Yamla 14:16, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I acknowledged my responsibility in my initial reply. What bothers me here is that I've been wrongly led to believe that your revert was wrong because (A) I was unaware of WP:V and WP:BLP, and (B) I've seen similar uncited content in other articles to which other admins simply added the "citation needed" tag instead of reverting it out in compliance with WP:V and WP:BLP. All admins should always comply with those policies, and Sam Spade's welcome blurb should mandate, rather than simply suggest, the reading of the links that it contains. As for my source citation dilemma, I don't see a solution at WP:CS, so I'll ask for a solution at Wikipedia talk:Citing sources. -John Rigali 16:19, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:VDHScrest.gif
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:VDHSlogo.gif
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